Forexpros – European stocks were down after the closing bell on Friday.
At the close of European trade, Germany’s DAX fell 3.36%, London’s FTSE 100 shed 2.34%, France’s CAC 40 declined 3.59% and the EURO STOXX 50 was down 3.81%.
Earlier in the day, official data showed that U.S. non-farm payrolls remained unchanged unexpectedly at a seasonally adjusted 0K last month, from 85K in the preceding month whose figure was revised down from 117K.
Analysts had expected U.S. non-farm payrolls to rise 74K last month.
Meanwhile, on Wall Street, equity markets were down after the open. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 1.68%; the S&P 500 index shed 1.91%, while the Nasdaq 100 index declined 1.86%.
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